List of Participants

June 2022 Roundtable

Veronica Alix Investment Proxy Research, Lead Analyst, BNY Mellon
James Andrus Interim Managing Investment Director of Board Governance and Sustainability, California Public Employees’ Retirement System
Lara Aryani Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP
Alexandra Barrows Director, ESG Relations & Capital Financings, Freeport-McMoRan
Sonia Barros Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Elizabeth Bieber Counsel and Head of Shareholder Engagement & Activism Defense, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Lucian Bebchuk James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, Harvard Law School
Elizabeth Bieber Counsel and Head of Shareholder Engagement & Activism Defense, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Lindsay Blitstein ESG Analyst, Wellington Management
Mila Brogan Assistant Governance Officer & Director of Issuer and Investor Engagement, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
Stephen L. Brown Senior Advisor, KPMG LLP
Maureen Bujno Managing Director, Audit & Assurance Governance Leader, Center for Board Effectiveness, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Steven Canner Partner, Baker & McKenzie
Ning Chiu Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Zach Cochran Partner, King & Spalding
Will Collins-Dean Senior Portfolio Manager and Vice President, Dimensional Fund Advisors
Steve Cross Managing Director, FW Cook
Arthur B. Crozier Chairman, Innisfree M&A Incorporated
Stephen Davis Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Programs on Corporate Governance and Institutional Investors, Harvard Law School
Warren de Wied Partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Michael Delikat Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Paul DeNicola Principal, Governance Insights Center, PwC
Jonathan Doorley Partner, Brunswick Group
Rani Doyle Managing Director, EY Center for Board Matters
Christopher Drewry Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
Craig Durrant Vice President, Morgan Stanley
Renata Ferrari Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP
Margaret M. Foran Chief Governance Officer, Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary, Prudential Financial, Inc.
Raquel Fox Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and affiliates
Mary Francis Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer, Chevron Corporation
Brian Galle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
John Galloway Principal, Investment Stewardship—Office of the General Counsel, Vanguard
Robert Garretson Vice President, Legal Strategic Programs & Operations, Philip Morris International
Brad Goldberg Partner, Cooley LLP
Bruce H. Goldfarb President and Chief Executive Officer, Okapi Partners
Marc Goldstein Managing Director, Head of U.S. Research, Institutional Shareholder Services
Kelly Grez Corporate Secretary, AVP, Legal, Merck & Co., Inc.
Jonathan Haymon VP, Director of Proxy Voting, Federated Hermes
Josh Hochberg Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Edelman Financial Communications
Renee Jones Director, Division of Corporation Finance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Adam Kanzer Head of Stewardship, Americas, BNP Paribas Asset Management
Mara Garcia Kaplan Senior Vice President, Senior Lead Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary, Wells Fargo
Thomas Kennedy Senior Associate General Counsel, Gilead Sciences
James Killerlane Corporate Secretary, Managing Director and Deputy General Counsel, BNY Mellon
Tom Kim Managing Director, FTI Consulting
Ele Klein Partner and Chair of the M&A and Securities Group, Co-Chair of the Global Shareholder Activism Group and Member of the Executive Committee, Schulte Roth & Zabel
Martin Lessner Partner, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP
Steve Lipin Founder & CEO, Gladstone Place Partners
Steve Lippman Director, ESG Engagement, Microsoft
Ron Llewellyn Counsel, Fenwick
Christopher Ludwig Managing Director, Global Head of Strategic Shareholder Advisory, Credit Suisse
Shaun J. Mathew Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Theodore N. Mirvis Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Thomas S. Moffatt Vice President, Assistant Corporate Secretary and Senior Legal Counsel, CVS Health
Ryan Nowicki Assistant Vice President, Asset Stewardship, State Street Global Advisors
Christine O’Brien Head of Investment Stewardship, Elliott Investment Management
Carey Oven National Managing Partner, Center for Board Effectiveness, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Tessie Petion Head of ESG Engagement, Amazon
Jeffrey Pochowicz Vice President – Associate General Counsel (Corp, Securities & Governance) and Assistant Secretary, McDonald’s Corporation
Mark Preisinger Director of Corporate Governance, The Coca-Cola Company
Denise Purvis Corporate Governance Manager – Research, Florida State Board of Administration (SBA)
Sean Quinn Managing Director, Teneo
Timothy M. Rankin Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager, and Research Analyst, Franklin Mutual Series
John Roe Managing Director, Head of Investment Stewardship, Americas, BlackRock
Michelle Rutta Partner, White & Case LLP
Kyle Seifried Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Ian Spaulding Partner and Head of Activism Defense, PJT Partners
Robert B. Stebbins Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Darla C. Stuckey President & CEO, Society for Corporate Governance
Eric Swedenburg Partner, Simpson Thacher
Roberto Tallarita Associate Director and Research Fellow, Program on Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School
Christina Thomas Partner, Mayer Brown LLP
Marc R. Treviño Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Ed Trissel Partner, Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher
Neil Whoriskey Partner, Milbank LLP
Liz Wideman Senior Vice President, Senior Deputy General Counsel & Assistant Secretary, Comcast Corporation
Catherine Winner Managing Director, Global Head of Stewardship, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Mariana Wisk Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary, Assurant
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